Amillinialists: Kingdom of Fools
I was in the process of writing and essay with a title above. But I begun to realize that it would seem too be a complicated subject. Yet I just want to pass the idea of the destructive consequence of believing in amilinialism.
A belief that goes with amilinialism is the notion of the "invisible" church, which consequentially meant that the kingdom is invisible. At first, the mattter seem to be not problematic, but once we get deeper unto it, it actually question the idea if God is indeed reigning in this world.
First, a kingdom is made up of heirarchy of leaders of which every leaders are leading its members to God. But if salvation is attained by others outside of Christianity (an implication of believing the invisible church), then what is the need for Christians to claim authority as sole guide to God? It would imply that there is a way of salvation which Christianity does not know, and consequentially deny Christianity to be the kingdom of God! It would make it ridiculous that God had set up a kingdom in Christianity.
In the outset, it is absurd for God to set up an invisible Church/Kingdom. There would be no problem to believe that God remains omnipotent without an existing kingdom of God. But for God to set up a kingdom which each members do not know the members among themselves is quite lunacy.
I was in the process of writing and essay with a title above. But I begun to realize that it would seem too be a complicated subject. Yet I just want to pass the idea of the destructive consequence of believing in amilinialism.
A belief that goes with amilinialism is the notion of the "invisible" church, which consequentially meant that the kingdom is invisible. At first, the mattter seem to be not problematic, but once we get deeper unto it, it actually question the idea if God is indeed reigning in this world.
First, a kingdom is made up of heirarchy of leaders of which every leaders are leading its members to God. But if salvation is attained by others outside of Christianity (an implication of believing the invisible church), then what is the need for Christians to claim authority as sole guide to God? It would imply that there is a way of salvation which Christianity does not know, and consequentially deny Christianity to be the kingdom of God! It would make it ridiculous that God had set up a kingdom in Christianity.
In the outset, it is absurd for God to set up an invisible Church/Kingdom. There would be no problem to believe that God remains omnipotent without an existing kingdom of God. But for God to set up a kingdom which each members do not know the members among themselves is quite lunacy.
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